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Reframe: From Automatic Reactions to Intentional Living
Your brain learned these patterns. It can learn new ones.
Through real-life stories and practical neuroscience, discover how to change the patterns shaping your thoughts, behaviors, and relationships. Much of what we do happens automatically. Our brains build pathways from repeated thoughts, emotions, and experiences, then rely on those pathways to help us respond quickly. A sharp comment lands, and before you’ve thought it through, you’re defensive. A piece of feedback arrives, and you’re already building your case against it. These automatic reactions are meant to protect us. But they can also keep us stuck, pulling us away from the people we want to be and the lives we want to create.
In REFRAME, Nancy Post makes the science of the brain understandable and useful. Drawing on more than 35 years of Fortune 100 engineering and leadership experience, training in neuroscience-based coaching, and the lessons of growing up the youngest of 15 children, she explores why defensive and misread one anotherResist constructive feedbackRepeat unhelpful, automatic habitsAct against what matters most to usEach of the book’s 14 chapters combines brain science with honest stories and practical reflection, giving you the tools to recognize the patterns driving your reactions and build new ones with intention.
Understanding your brain will not eliminate difficult moments. It will give you greater choice in how you respond.
Through real-life stories and practical neuroscience, discover how to change the patterns shaping your thoughts, behaviors, and relationships. Much of what we do happens automatically. Our brains build pathways from repeated thoughts, emotions, and experiences, then rely on those pathways to help us respond quickly. A sharp comment lands, and before you’ve thought it through, you’re defensive. A piece of feedback arrives, and you’re already building your case against it. These automatic reactions are meant to protect us. But they can also keep us stuck, pulling us away from the people we want to be and the lives we want to create.
In REFRAME, Nancy Post makes the science of the brain understandable and useful. Drawing on more than 35 years of Fortune 100 engineering and leadership experience, training in neuroscience-based coaching, and the lessons of growing up the youngest of 15 children, she explores why defensive and misread one anotherResist constructive feedbackRepeat unhelpful, automatic habitsAct against what matters most to usEach of the book’s 14 chapters combines brain science with honest stories and practical reflection, giving you the tools to recognize the patterns driving your reactions and build new ones with intention.
Understanding your brain will not eliminate difficult moments. It will give you greater choice in how you respond.
267 pages, Hardcover
Published October 22, 2026
About the author
Nancy Post
1 book3 followersNancy Post spent more than thirty-five years in engineering and manufacturing, retiring from John Deere as a vice president. Today she advises organizations on business transformation as a senior advisor at Boston Consulting Group and coaches executives and leadership teams through Nancy Post Coaching.
During her career at Rockwell International and John Deere, Nancy led global teams, helped bring autonomous technology to market, and became the first woman to serve as an engineering director at John Deere. Along the way, she learned that being technically right was rarely enough. The work that mattered most came down to how people think, how they hear one another, and what they do when they feel threatened.
That realization led Nancy to the NeuroLeadership Institute, where she earned coaching and executive coaching certifications and later completed the Certificate in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership. She began coaching while still at John Deere.
The youngest of fifteen children, Nancy was studying human dynamics long before she studied neuroscience. Watching her parents build the patterns that still hold their large family together taught her much of what she knows about people. Those lessons run through REFRAME. The research simply explained why they worked.
In REFRAME, Nancy brings together brain science, stories from her own life and career, and practical ways to interrupt automatic reactions and respond with intention. She writes about the brain the way she has always understood it: through the lives of real people.
Nancy lives in Iowa with her husband, Paul. They are happiest spending time with their children and granddaughter. She believes that understanding our own minds is the first step toward stronger relationships and more joy.
Find her at https://NancyPostCoaching.com She would love to hear what you reframed.
Find her book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHM26RTG
Find her book on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
During her career at Rockwell International and John Deere, Nancy led global teams, helped bring autonomous technology to market, and became the first woman to serve as an engineering director at John Deere. Along the way, she learned that being technically right was rarely enough. The work that mattered most came down to how people think, how they hear one another, and what they do when they feel threatened.
That realization led Nancy to the NeuroLeadership Institute, where she earned coaching and executive coaching certifications and later completed the Certificate in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership. She began coaching while still at John Deere.
The youngest of fifteen children, Nancy was studying human dynamics long before she studied neuroscience. Watching her parents build the patterns that still hold their large family together taught her much of what she knows about people. Those lessons run through REFRAME. The research simply explained why they worked.
In REFRAME, Nancy brings together brain science, stories from her own life and career, and practical ways to interrupt automatic reactions and respond with intention. She writes about the brain the way she has always understood it: through the lives of real people.
Nancy lives in Iowa with her husband, Paul. They are happiest spending time with their children and granddaughter. She believes that understanding our own minds is the first step toward stronger relationships and more joy.
Find her at https://NancyPostCoaching.com She would love to hear what you reframed.
Find her book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HHM26RTG
Find her book on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
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I loved the life lessons the author applied throughout her life and how they impacted her growth as a leader. The examples of reflecting on how we react, and how we can create new neural pathways through repetition, would be especially useful for those in leadership roles.
I think this book is a great read for leaders and particularly helpful for women in leadership. What impressed me most was how genuinely the author cared about her employees and the legacy they wanted to leave. I also appreciated how she explained shifting conversations to a more positive perspective and leading by keeping others’ dreams and best interests in mind.
It was especially meaningful to read how she learned not to take things personally, but instead looked for the unmet needs or challenges the other person might be facing. I loved Nancy’s open-mindedness and expansive approach to creating new neural pathways and becoming the kind of leader we can all learn from in every aspect of life
I think this book is a great read for leaders and particularly helpful for women in leadership. What impressed me most was how genuinely the author cared about her employees and the legacy they wanted to leave. I also appreciated how she explained shifting conversations to a more positive perspective and leading by keeping others’ dreams and best interests in mind.
It was especially meaningful to read how she learned not to take things personally, but instead looked for the unmet needs or challenges the other person might be facing. I loved Nancy’s open-mindedness and expansive approach to creating new neural pathways and becoming the kind of leader we can all learn from in every aspect of life
Review of advance copy
This is a practical guide to setting goals and reaching your potential. The author helps readers see themselves and others ability to stretch beyond the bonds of reactive thinking, the science of neuro plasticity and how to build new pathways. Personal stories and experiences make this is an enjoyable read that will encourage you to open your mind to opportunities and better communication. You will come back again and again to apply these ideas to your own success as you embrace curiosity and positive change in your journey.
October 9, 2026
This book is a MUST READ! Perfect blend of education, inspiration and entertainment! Nancy Post brings brain science to life as she uses real world (from both personal and professional experience) examples to illustrate the concepts. She has an authentic, witty style that engages you as a reader - all the feels as I turned the pages!
This book has been a valuable resource for my personal growth and I shared many excerpts with my husband for us to learn together! His copy and one for each of my kids has been ordered!
As a professional coach, I have also referenced it multiple times with my own clients and will purchasing copies for some of them upon its release as well!
This book has been a valuable resource for my personal growth and I shared many excerpts with my husband for us to learn together! His copy and one for each of my kids has been ordered!
As a professional coach, I have also referenced it multiple times with my own clients and will purchasing copies for some of them upon its release as well!
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